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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 101. Chapters: Classical Athens, Classical Greek philosophy, Classical era Greek historians, Late Classical Greece, Spartan hegemony, Herodotus, Trial of Socrates, Peloponnesian League, Thucydides, Seven Sages of Greece, Xenophon, Lysander, Ctesias, Metic, Agesilaus II, Clearchus of Sparta, Ephorus, Theopompus, Philistus, Ancient Greek philosophy, Cratippus of Athens, Eudaimonia, Athenian army, Physics, List of ancient Greek philosophers, Fifth Century Athens, Plague of Athens, Chaos, Long Walls, Sophism, Greece in 5th century BC, Pericles' Funeral Oration, Hylozoism, Apollonian and Dionysian, Klismos, Battle of Aegospotami, Golden mean, Autochthon, Duris of Samos, Political climate, Eudemus of Rhodes, Ephialtes, Decree of Themistocles, Meleager of Skopas, Agesipolis I, Athenian Treasury, Choragic Monument of Lysicrates, 464 BC Sparta earthquake, Battle of Mantinea, 426 BC Maliakos Gulf tsunami, Epirote League, Doxa, Laurium, Bendis, Jason of Pherae, Iphicrates, Athenian coup of 411 BC, Platsis Symposium, Ionian Enlightenment, Techne, Second Athenian Empire, Kalos kagathos, Classical theism, Macrocosm and microcosm, Heracleides of Cyme, Paralus and Xanthippus, Hermippus, Sphodrias, Timophanes, Pausanias II of Sparta, Pneuma, Mnasippus, Aethlius, Harmost, Stesicles, History of ethics in Ancient Greece, Phrygian type helmet, Cleombrotus I, Phlius, Idios kosmos, Eucleides, Antiochus of Syracuse, Dinon, Aporime, Phren, Eupraxis, Euthymia. Excerpt: Classical Greece was a culture which heavily influenced the cultures of ancient Rome and still has an enduring effect on Western civilization. Much of modern politics, artistic thought, scientific thought, literature, and philosophy derives from this ancient society. In the context of the art, architecture, and culture of ancient Greece, the Classical period corresponds to most of the 5th a...